{"id":1034058,"date":"2026-09-09T08:04:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T02:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1034058"},"modified":"2026-09-09T08:11:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T02:41:36","slug":"french-ai-company-mistral-hits-24-billion-valuation-in-funding-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/09\/french-ai-company-mistral-hits-24-billion-valuation-in-funding-round\/","title":{"rendered":"French AI company Mistral hits $24 billion valuation in funding round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>France&#8217;s Mistral has raised \u20ac3 billion at a valuation \u200bof around \u20ac21 billion ($24 billion), in what \u200bthe three-year-old AI company said on Tuesday was the biggest equity \u200bfunding round by a privately owned European technology firm. <\/p>\n<p>Mistral said that the round was jointly led by existing investor PSG Equity, along with South Korea&#8217;s Samsung Electronics and the EU-backed Scaleup Europe Fund, which both invested \u200cin it for \u2060the \u2060first time. <\/p>\n<p>The fundraising makes Mistral Europe&#8217;s second-highest-valued private tech group and the fastest-growing company in Europe, its chief financial \u200bofficer Johan Bergqvist told Reuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France&#8217;s Mistral has raised \u20ac3 billion at a valuation \u200bof around \u20ac21 billion ($24 billion), in what \u200bthe three-year-old AI company said on Tuesday was the biggest equity \u200bfunding round by a privately owned European technology firm. Mistral said that the round was jointly led by existing investor PSG Equity, along with South Korea&#8217;s Samsung Electronics and the EU-backed Scaleup Europe Fund, which both invested \u200cin it for \u2060the \u2060first time. The fundraising makes Mistral Europe&#8217;s second-highest-valued private tech group and the fastest-growing company in Europe, its chief financial \u200bofficer Johan Bergqvist told Reuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034079,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034058\/revisions\/1034079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}